Whatever Happened to Voice Recognition?
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Published: Jun 21, 2010
Remember that Scene in Star Trek IV where Scotty tried to use a Mac Plus?
Using a mouse or keyboard to control a computer? Don't be silly. In the future, clearly there's only one way computers will be controlled: by speaking to them.
There's only one teeny-tiny problem with this magical future world of computers we control with our voices.
It doesn't work.
Links
- Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition
- If you're lucky
- post
- unchanged
- Star Trek IV
- one teeny-tiny problem
- order of magnitude increases in computing power
- "zoom ... enhance"
- Palm's Graffiti
- JIRA 4
- Get started
- Apple Newton
- automatic speech recognition feature
- the first UC Berkeley video
- composed a poem about voice recognition
